Macron may have doubts, but if the deal isn’t approved the EU must grant the UK an extension – for its own sake as well as ours.

Look no further than the recent flare up between the NBA and China for a snapshot of Chinese politics today. After Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image with the message “fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong,” Chinese companies enacted a media boycott of the NBA and pulled sponsorships in a market worth $4 billion a year for the league. U.S. politicians blasted the moves – and the NBA’s initial hesitant response.

Hoover Institution fellow Markos Kounalakis discusses U.K. lawmakers voting to withhold approval of a full British withdrawal from the European Union, as well as whether this is a big setback for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul believes President Vladimir Putin is fighting against the tide of history and that Russian society will not “tolerate disenfranchisement and oppression forever.”